You have lost your keys, debit card and cell phone
You are asked to do something and you return without completing the task
You forget what someone just said to you
You ask people to repeat questions
You are bad at following directions
You have to read something more than once to understand itYou are often told to calm down
You jump from one activity to another
You forget doctors appointments
People in your life are mad at you because you do not pick up your cell.. this is because you forget to charge it
You get anxious speaking in front of a group of people
You are defensive
This is just some of the many things I go through

If I had just a nickel for all the times I've been told to calm down or relax,
I wouldn't be worried about not having health insurance 'cause I'd be rich.

Frustrating and funny at the same time, the doctor at the Chinese Clinic put in the accupuncture needles and told me to relax. I replied, "This is as relaxed as I can get." Which was so tense I could lay down on the table but sat on the edge swinging my legs and picking at my clothes, my hair, my face ...

__________________ADD is not a problem of knowing what to do; it is a problem of doing what you know.
-RUSSELL A. BARKLEY, PH.D.

As far as I know, there is nothing positive about ADHD that people can't have w out ADHD. ~ ADD me

When your playing around on this forum and find the page where it says all the times you've been thanked in a post and find posts that you didn't know you had written...

When this is an actual conversation with your sons Doctor who specializes in ADHD

Doctor: So who else in the family has ADHD
You: My brother does
Doctor: OK who else has ADHD
You: Nobody that I can think of
Doctor: No.. who else in the family has ADHD
You: Ummm... i suspect that i might have it
Doctor: Yeah i suspect that you have it too!

This was during his diagnosis and was only the Third conversation that i had ever had with the man! LOL

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You are asked to do something and you return without completing the task

This is my biggest frustration at work and my co workers and boss get really annoyed at me for it and it makes me feel like crying because I intentionally didnt mean to forget it just completely slipped my mind

__________________I dont suffer from insanity... I enjoy every minute of it.~ I do believe in fairies ~ I do... I do ~

When the door specifically says "push" and you pull.
When you do that five hundred times with the same door.
When, if you don't notice the sign "push" because you were too busy, you actually do (lo' and behold) push.
When you figure out it would be best to replace all the "push"-signs with "pull"-signs and vice versa.

If you spend an hour cooking a meal that takes a lot of preparation and ingredients like stir fry, then when it's done you set it on the counter to cool and come back three hours later to find it still sitting there because you forgot to eat it, you might have ADD...

If you've ever put at least four different sauces, or 8-9 different spices, that don't even go together, on a dish just to see how it will taste, you might have ADD.

If you've ever started preparing a dinner and then realize you don't have the ingredients you need so you go to the store, then come back and by the time you get done cooking you're too tired to eat because it's so late at night and you just go to bed instead, you might have ADD.

If you've ever cooked a certain dish to use up an ingredient in your fridge that is getting old, then forget to put that ingredient in the dish anyway and find it old and rotting in your fridge the following week, you might have ADD.

If you go to the store because you're out of your favorite pickles, then get home and open the jar and eat some pickles and when you go to put them in the fridge you find two other, opened, half-eaten jars of the same kind of pickles, you might have ADD.

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“We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away."
- G’Kar, Babylon5 S5E20: Objects in Motion

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If you go to the store because you're out of your favorite pickles, then get home and open the jar and eat some pickles and when you go to put them in the fridge you find two other, opened, half-eaten jars of the same kind of pickles, you might have ADD.

HA HA HA - I swear i bought vanilla 3 times in the last month and every time I look in my pantry.. I don't see any... one of these days I'm going to look and see 5 bottles of vanilla extract!! LOL

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Can one of the "Powers that be" sticky this so that it doesn't get lost in the graveyard? It's a great thread so that we all know we do the same things that are so frustrating. And now maybe we can laugh at ourselves next time we do them... Cause we will probably do them again!

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Can one of the "Powers that be" sticky this so that it doesn't get lost in the graveyard? It's a great thread so that we all know we do the same things that are so frustrating. And now maybe we can laugh at ourselves next time we do them... Cause we will probably do them again!

I asked them to do that - it would also be a good resource for people
who question whether they actually have ADHD - and something for
families and friends to read when they question the diagnosis as well.

I hope they will sticky it, I know the sticky thread in the Parenting
section is really helpful.

__________________ADD is not a problem of knowing what to do; it is a problem of doing what you know.
-RUSSELL A. BARKLEY, PH.D.

As far as I know, there is nothing positive about ADHD that people can't have w out ADHD. ~ ADD me

Can one of the "Powers that be" sticky this so that it doesn't get lost in the graveyard? It's a great thread so that we all know we do the same things that are so frustrating. And now maybe we can laugh at ourselves next time we do them... Cause we will probably do them again!

Also, don't forget that you can subscribe to threads. vBulletin is such a great system, I normally don't even bother with forums that don't use vBulletin nowadays, unless the content is truly golden and can't be found anywhere else. (You can subscribe using thread tools at the top of the thread, and manage your thread subscription settings in your user cp.) Glad you brought that up, I just subscribed to this thread so I won't lose it...

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- G’Kar, Babylon5 S5E20: Objects in Motion

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When you get so angry when someone over-estimates their knowledge--you flip out mentally A slightly above modest college education doesn't mean anything. I'm quite sick and tired of those arrogant college individuals.

I love those of higher education, though, puts the rabble in their place right quick. Something I have issues with doing due to my scatter-brained nature.

I wish more people had a love of knowledge rather than a love for lording their inaccurately supposed superior level over someone else. Until then, it's something that constantly distracts me, even if I can't stop it.

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